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Posted on 07/12/2025 9:34:52 AM PDT by Mariner
President Trump is considering authorizing fresh funding for Ukraine for the first time since he took office in January, multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News.
The sources indicated the new funding could be intended to send a message to Russia, which has pounded Ukraine with drone and missile attacks in recent days. Russia this week launched what Ukraine described as the largest drone attack since its full-scale invasion began in February 2022 — the latest in a wave of aerial assaults that have pummeled Kyiv and other cities.
Mr. Trump hinted earlier this week that he planned to send Ukraine more defensive weapons. Just days earlier, his administration paused some arms shipments — a move one White House official cast as one part of a wider global review of weapons transfers.
The source of the possible new funding for Ukraine is unclear. But U.S. officials told CBS News Mr. Trump has $3.85 billion in leftover Biden-era presidential drawdown authority sitting at his fingertips, which could be used to send American military equipment to Ukraine. Former officials also told CBS News the president has the authority to seize around $5 billion in foreign Russian assets and direct the funds to Ukraine, though neither he, nor former President Joe Biden have used that power.
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Seems to me POTUS is expending a lot of political capital on this and the Epstein scandal. Either could result in political catastrophe.
Other than a few that claim to be conservative, I wonder if anyone here that voted for Trump wanted another ‘forever war’.
Trump wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
Putin is not interested in a ceasefire.
This is NOT transparency!
Let’s get out of this Mr. President, right now!
maybe he sold out on those issues to get his bill passed
“Trump wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine.”
The question is: Why is it so important to him? Why not just walk away?
Winning!
This is a message to Russia. One has to watch what Trump does not necessarily what he says.
maybe those issues are connected in a different way
No. Has he settled in and decided that the MAGA base does not matter any longer?
Adding a hundred thousand Patriot missiles to a defense contract already producing a hundred thousand, certainly brings down the cost per unit produced.
No Patriot defensive missile stocks equals American boots on the ground as deterrence. I'll take the defensive missile production every time.
Because he's the President of the United States.
And we do not live in the 19th Century where we are protected by two great oceans.
The war is Biden's mess so he's not happy about it. But he's handling it.
Considering the source of this, I will wait and see.
I think leftists would like a big pile on at this moment.
Maybe. Could be why he and Linseed are hanging out together.
I don’t remember President Trump advocating further commitment into a European war of attrition that Biden and Obama provoked, but Perhaps it’s a winning political strategy? /s
I would hope not.
Take your See BS with a grain of salt.
Piss off
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